Ray Bradbury Quotes

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

I’m not a futurist.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

You can make yourself happy or miserable – it’s the same amount of effort.

I have fun with ideas; I play with them.

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don’t do that.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

Look at the Chandra Levy case. It’s become a Star Chamber. The major networks, the cable networks, they’re being prosecutors. They’re judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c’mon, that’s ridiculous. But they’re doing it.

If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we’ll become completely dark.

Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.

I’m not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

I think we’re doing a dreadful job of educating.